Damp

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damp \Damp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Damped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Damping}.] [OE. dampen to choke, suffocate. See {Damp}, n.]
     1. To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately
        wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.
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     2. To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to
        cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make
        dull; to weaken; to discourage. "To damp your tender
        hopes." --Akenside.
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              Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements,
              and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring
              if it were not for this slug.         --Bacon.
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              How many a day has been damped and darkened by an
              angry word!                           --Sir J.
                                                    Lubbock.
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              The failure of his enterprise damped the spirit of
              the soldiers.                         --Macaulay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), a. [Compar. {Damper}; superl. {Dampest}.]
     1. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet;
        moist; humid.
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              O'erspread with a damp sweat and holy fear.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. Dejected; depressed; sunk. [R.]
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              All these and more came flocking, but with looks
              Downcast and damp.                    --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Damp \Damp\ (d[a^]mp), n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. damp vapor,
     steam, fog, G. dampf, Icel. dampi, Sw. damb dust, and to MNG.
     dimpfen to smoke, imp. dampf.]
     1. Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
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              Night . . . with black air
              Accompanied, with damps and dreadful gloom.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Dejection; depression; cloud of the mind.
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              Even now, while thus I stand blest in thy presence,
              A secret damp of grief comes o'er my soul.
                                                    --Addison.
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              It must have thrown a damp over your autumn
              excursion.                            --J. D.
                                                    Forbes.
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     3. (Mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old
        wells, pints, etc.
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     {Choke damp}, a damp consisting principally of carbonic acid
        gas; -- so called from its extinguishing flame and animal
        life. See {Carbonic acid}, under {Carbonic}.
  
     {Damp sheet}, a curtain in a mine gallery to direct air
        currents and prevent accumulation of gas.
  
     {Fire damp}, a damp consisting chiefly of light carbureted
        hydrogen; -- so called from its tendence to explode when
        mixed with atmospheric air and brought into contact with
        flame.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  deoxyribonucleotide \deoxyribonucleotide\ n.
     an organic molecule consisting of a hereocyclic base attached
     to the 1-carbon of a deoxyribose ring, with a phosphate group
     esterified at the 5 position of the deoxyribose.
     Deoxyribonuceotides are the monomer units which make up
     {deoxyribonucleic acid}, the molecule carrying the hereditary
     information in most organisms. The most common forms of
     deoxyribonuceotide are {thymidine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated
     {TMP}), {deoxyadenosine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {dAMP}),
     {deoxyguanosine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {dGMP}), and
     {deoxycytidine-5'-phosphate} (abbreviated {dCMP}).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  damp
       adj : slightly wet; "clothes damp with perspiration"; "a moist
             breeze"; "eyes moist with tears" [syn: {dampish}, {moist}]
       n : a slight wetness [syn: {dampness}, {moistness}]
       v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: {muffle},
             {mute}, {dull}, {dampen}, {tone down}]
       2: restrain or discourage; "the sudden bad news damped the
          joyous atmosphere"
       3: make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible;
          "muffle the message" [syn: {dampen}, {deaden}]
       4: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"
          [syn: {dampen}, {soften}, {weaken}, {break}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  357 Moby Thesaurus words for "damp":
     abate, abridge, absorb the shock, acoustic tile, afterdamp, allay,
     alleviate, antiknock, arrest, asperge, asphyxiate, assimilate to,
     assuage, attemper, attenuate, baffle, baffler, balance,
     bank the fire, beat down, bedew, bespatter, besprinkle, blackdamp,
     blow out, blunt, bogginess, boggy, bottle up, break the fall,
     breath, cast down, censor, chasten, check, chill, choke, choke off,
     chokedamp, clamminess, clammy, clamp down on, cloud, cold water,
     compress, constrain, control, cool, cork, cork up, countercheck,
     crack down on, cramp, crepehanger, cripple, crush, curb, curtail,
     cushion, cut, cut back, cut down, dabble, dam up, damp down,
     dampen, dampen the spirits, dampener, damper, dampish, dampness,
     dank, darken, dash, de-emphasize, deaden, deafen, debilitate,
     decrease, deduct, deflate, deflect, deject, delay, depreciate,
     depress, detain, deter, determent, deterrent, devitalize, dew,
     dewiness, dewy, diminish, disaffect, discourage, discouragement,
     dishearten, disincline, disinterest, dispirit, distract, divert,
     douche, douse, downgrade, downplay, drenched, drown, dull,
     effluvium, enervate, enfeeble, equalize, equilibrize, even,
     eviscerate, exhalation, exhaust, extenuate, extinguish, exudation,
     fenny, fetid air, firedamp, flatten, flatus, fluid, fogginess,
     fume, gag, gruel, harmonize, hinder, hold back, hold down,
     hold in check, hold up, homogenize, hose, hose down, humect,
     humectate, humectation, humid, humidify, humidity, humor,
     hushcloth, impede, indispose, inhibit, intercept, interfere,
     intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, irrigate, jump on, keep back,
     keep down, keep in check, keep under, keep within bounds, kill,
     killjoy, knock down, lay, lay low, lenify, lessen, level, lighten,
     lower, lower the spirits, make uniform, malaria, marshiness,
     marshy, meddle, mephitis, miasma, mistiness, misty, mitigate,
     moderate, modulate, moist, moisten, moistiness, moistness,
     moisture, muffle, muffler, muggy, mute, muzzle, neutralize,
     normalize, obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, out, paddle, palliate,
     pare, pessimist, play down, pour water on, press down,
     puff of smoke, put down, put off, put out, quash, quell, quench,
     quietener, rainfall, raininess, rainy, rattle, reduce,
     reduce the temperature, reek, regularize, regulate, repel, repress,
     resist, restrain, retard, retrench, roll back, roric, sadden, sap,
     saturated, scale down, scotch, set back, shake, shake up, shorten,
     show consideration, show mercy, show pity, showeriness,
     shut down on, silence, silence cloth, silencer, simplify, sink,
     sit down on, sit on, slack, slacken, slobber, slop, slosh,
     slow down, smash, smoke, smooth, smother, smudge, snub, snuff,
     snuff out, soaked, soaking, sober, sober down, soddenness,
     soft pedal, soft-pedal, soften, soften the blow, soften up,
     sogginess, soggy, soppiness, sordine, sordino,
     sound-absorbing material, soundproofing, soundproofing insulation,
     sourdine, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spoilsport, sponge,
     spray, sprinkle, squash, squelch, stabilize, stamp out, stanch,
     standardize, steam, steamy, step down, stereotype, sticky, stifle,
     stop, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, swampiness,
     swampy, swash, symmetrize, syringe, tacky, take from, tame, temper,
     throttle, tone down, tune down, turn aside, turn away, turn from,
     turn off, unbrace, undermine, underplay, undried, uniformize,
     unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, vapor, volatile, water,
     water vapor, wateriness, weaken, wean from, weigh heavy upon,
     weigh upon, wet, wet blanket, wet down, wetness, wettish,
     wettishness